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Amy Sullivan / The New Republic:
Breaking: Some Journalists Forced to Work on Hamster Wheels — Nothing gets journalists chattering like a debate about themselves, so I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that my post yesterday about the fixation many news outlets have with being first attracted some notice.
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Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Journalists Weigh in on ‘Reporting it First’
Journalists Weigh in on ‘Reporting it First’
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Erik Wemple, Poynter, The Daily Dish and Neatorama
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Spin Magazine Is Sold to Buzzmedia, With Plans to Expand Online Reach — Spin Media, the company behind the alternative-music magazine Spin, has been sold to Buzzmedia, a portfolio of music and celebrity Web sites, in a deal that could expand Spin's reach online but also calls into question its future as a print publication.
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The Wrap, BUZZMEDIA, Inc., Gothamist, Media Decoder, Adweek, FishbowlNY, AdAge, Folio, paidContent, New York Magazine, mediabistro.com, Forbes Real Time and eMedia Vitals
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Tech and Media Elite Are Likely to Debate Piracy — It's not often moguls admit they made a mistake. — But lately some of the highest-paid executives at the world's largest media companies have talked a lot about the lessons they learned from a failed industrywide attempt to pass antipiracy legislation six months ago.
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Daily Dot and Forbes Real Time
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AdAge:
Blog Network Say Media Poaches Time Magazine Publisher Kim Kelleher — Leaves Time Inc. Flagship Magazine for Blog Network — Kim Kelleher is leaving her post as worldwide publisher of Time magazine to become president of Say Media, the blog network that includes sites such as XOJane …
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MinOnline, Adweek, TechCrunch, The Wrap and FishbowlNY
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Next Issue, magazines and paving media cow paths — Newspapers get most of the press when it comes to the disruption of the mainstream media industry, but magazines are also struggling to find a digital model that works. Next Issue Media believes it has the answer — a Netflix …
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The Loop, NetNewsCheck Latest and ZDNet
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad
Next Issue brings 39 all-you-can-read magazines to iPad
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TechCrunch, AdAge, VentureBeat, Engadget, FishbowlNY, ZDNet, PC Magazine, SocialTimes, Journalism.co.uk and Techland
Erik Maza / WWD:
New York Magazine to Relaunch The Cut — New York magazine's plans to expand its signature fashion blog The Cut have been evident since May, when it hired Gawker sex and scandal blogger Maureen O'Connor as features editor. — It looked like the blog would grow to cover …
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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
New York Magazine to Expand The Cut Blog
New York Magazine to Expand The Cut Blog
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NYConvergence.com, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY
Steve Myers / Poynter:
NPR unpublishes intern's execution story after discovering parts were plagiarized — NPR has deleted a story from its website, an intern's first-person account of witnessing a public execution in Kabul, after learning that parts of it were plagiarized from someone else's story published in 2001.
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NPR and New York Magazine
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Confidence in TV news at all-time low — Americans' confidence in television news has hit an all-time low, according to a new survey by Gallup. — Twenty-one percent of the 1,004 adults polled said they had “a great deal” or “a lot” of confidence in television news media …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Gallup, Deadline.com, Mediaite and @davidfolkenflik
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Donald Newhouse rebuffs request to sell Times-Picayune — Donald Newhouse has rebuffed a strongly-worded letter from a group of heavy-hitters in New Orleans to sell The Times-Picayune rather than cut daily printing. The Times-Picayune Citizens Group wrote in a letter delivered Monday:
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New Orleans Times-Picayune and JIMROMENESKO.COM
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John Robinson / Media, disrupted:
In New Orleans, profit trumps readers
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
HuffPost Preps for Video Launch — As the Huffington Post prepares for an Aug. 13 launch of its full-day online video network, it is hoping to tap a fast-growing advertising market by offering marketers something akin to sports naming rights in addition to traditional online video ads.
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The Huffington Post, Capital New York, Los Angeles Times and TVNewser
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
DirecTV-Viacom Dispute May Affect Access for 20 Million Customers — DirecTV customers may lose access to Viacom's 17 television channels, including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, at the end of the day on Tuesday because of a dispute between the two companies.
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Forbes Real Time, DIRECTV Viacom Dispute, Tampa Bay Times, Blog.Viacom, Radio & Television …, Mashable!, paidContent, Adweek, Deadline.com and B&C
Michael McGough / Los Angeles Times:
Should freedom of the press shield WikiLeaks? — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, it is safe to say, is not a fan of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. (J.. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press / July 9, 2012) — Glenn Greenwald, the ne plus ultra of critics of what he calls the …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Why The New York Times eschews formal social media guidelines — Phil Corbett, The New York Times associate managing editor for standards, tells me in an interview why the paper chooses to have only informal social media guidelines: … Earlier: John Paton's three “rules” for journalists using social media (Digital First) |
YCharts / Forbes:
Warren Buffett Likes Newspaper Stocks — Should You? — That old coot in Omaha is buying newspapers, after swearing a few years back he wouldn't. For Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) holders, this is at worst a small diversion, given the amounts involved, and at best a reminder …
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Scott Pelley on his first year behind the CBS News anchor desk — “Has it been a year? Holy smokes.” — That's Scott Pelley's response to recently passing his one-year anniversary as anchor of the “CBS Evening News.” — “It feels like I've been doing it for about six weeks,” he said.
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TVNewser
Brian Clark Howard / News Watch:
Dangerous Journalism: Where Is it Most Risky to Report? — An unexploded mortar shell sits in the desert in Israel near the border with Gaza and Egypt. Journalists covering conflict zones aren't the only ones at risk. Photo: Brian Clark Howard — By Drew Hendricks
Jim Romenesko:
Former Star-Ledger staffer Philip Read sues paper for fraud — Former Star-Ledger journalist Philip Read has sued the Advance-owned newspaper for fraud, claiming he was misled into accepting a buyout in 2010. — Read says in his suit that he felt forced to accept the buyout package …